Dec. 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 4539

Amended Regulations under the Education Act.—Grading of Teachers.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this seventeenth day of December, 1917.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR JAMES ALLEN, K.C.B., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the Education Act, 1914 (hereinafter referred to as “the Act”), and all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke the Orders in Council of the sixteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, and the twelfth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, making regulations with respect to the grading of teachers, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto; and doth prescribe that this Order shall come into force on the date of the first publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

1. For the purposes of these regulations the date of grading shall be the 31st day of December, provided that in the case of training-college students the date of grading shall be the date of completion of the training-college course.

2. The Inspectors of each education district acting together shall proceed annually as grading officers to grade, in accordance with the regulations herein contained, all the certified teachers employed in public schools by the Education Board of the district on the date of grading, and shall report the result of their grading to the Director of Education (hereinafter referred to as “the Director”) not later than the 31st day of March following:

Provided that training-college students who hold teachers’ certificates shall be graded by the grading officers of the district in which such training college is situated, after consultation with the principal of the training college concerned.

3. (i.) Certified teachers who are not in the employment of an Education Board on the date of grading may, not later than the 1st day of February following that date, apply to the Senior Inspector of the district in which they were last employed prior to the date of grading to have their names included in the grading list, and such teachers shall be graded accordingly as circumstances permit.

(ii.) Any teacher in the service of an Education Board, or any training-college student, who for the first time becomes certified between the date of grading and the 20th day of March following shall be entitled to be graded.

4. Certified teachers who are for the time being employed in Native schools and special schools under the Education Department may be graded by the Inspector or Inspectors instructed thereto by the Director, but any such grading shall have effect only in respect of any subsequent employment of the teacher in the service of an Education Board.

5. For the purpose of determining the grading of the teachers of any district the grading officers shall, in the manner prescribed in clause 6 hereof, provisionally divide the teachers to be graded in that district into six groups, as follows:—

Group 1.—Sole teachers with salary of Grade I, and assistants with salary of Grade 1 or 2.

Group 2.—Head or sole teachers with salary of Grade II, and assistants with salary of Grade 3.

Group 3.—Head or sole teachers with salary of Grade III, and assistants with salary of Grade 4 or 5.

Group 4.—Head teachers with salary of Grade IV, and assistants with salary of Grade 6 or 7.

Group 5.—Head and assistant teachers with salary of Grade V.

Group 6.—Head teachers with salary of Grade VI or VII.

6. (i.) The grade of salary for the purposes of the preceding clause shall be the grade of salary as set out in the tables forming Parts I and II of the Fourth Schedule to the Act, and payable to the teacher at the date of grading.